Top 100 Quotes About Something To Say
#1. I'm always looking for just the right song that has something to say.
Frankie Knuckles
#2. The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#3. You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.
Christopher Doyle
#4. If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
Tom Brady
#5. You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say 'for the rest of my life.'
Diane Kruger
#6. Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#7. When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
Lana Del Rey
#8. No matter what you do, if you're on a stage constantly speaking to people, you need to make sure that you have something to say. You need to make sure you're fed in whatever profession you're doing.
Colton Dixon
#9. I just don't see the point of talking unless there's something to say.
Jessica Sorensen
#10. Think of something to say. Keep him here. Something funny and interesting and cool.
"I put my wellies on because I was sure it was going to rain and now my feet are getting horribly moist," Ellie said, and it was the single worst thing she'd ever said to anyone.
Sarra Manning
#11. I'm just staring at him, mouth half-open. As soon as I realize it, I find something to say, anything. "Who the hell are you?"
"March," he tells me.
"That a name or an order?
Ann Aguirre
#12. Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost
#13. Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus
#14. Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say ... that I have, of course.
Stieg Larsson
#15. You know, our ratings after this match will be very close - I think I can also become the world number one in the not too distant future. However, I'm sure that Garry will also have something to say about this!
Vladimir Kramnik
#16. I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.
Dana Fox
#17. Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
Sholem Asch
#18. A convention always involves a level of security. It is always our intent to ensure everyone attending the convention is safe. When it comes to protestors, we welcome people who have something to say.
Leah D. Daughtry
#19. I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#20. If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#21. There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.
Cecily Strong
#22. Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
Malorie Blackman
#23. I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.
Rick Riordan
#24. There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.
Richard Roeper
#25. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.
Hugh MacLeod
#26. I think that today, in Europe at least, people don't tend to think so much about the instrument that is producing the music; they are more interested to see if the musician actually has something to say.
Michala Petri
#27. As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.
James Hilton
#28. You've got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"
"You'd probably kick my butt."
"You know I'd kick your butt.
Rick Riordan
#29. Thinking of something to say is difficult when you want to be perceived as clever!
Lorraine Reguly
#30. The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#31. I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#32. There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
Oscar Isaac
#33. In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
Martin Heidegger
#34. If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.
Damian Kulash
#35. According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'
Mia Love
#36. The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
Carine Roitfeld
#37. Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!
Jerome Richardson
#38. I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.
Tim Robbins
#39. So it goes when you travel for the sake of something to say. Your eyes go weak.
Fredrik Sjoberg
#40. There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
John Dewey
#41. I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
Joe Strummer
#42. I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
David Byrne
#43. I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.
Vusi Mahlasela
#44. When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier. It helps, naturally, to have something to say.
Edward Abbey
#45. My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.
Brian Greene
#46. As long as we're alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, we'll have something to say.
David DuChemin
#47. I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.
Tyrone Power
#48. I'm a personal type of person. I'll speak when I have something to say, not 'cause someone just wants to know something.
DMX
#49. tend not to talk unless they have something to say and if they start talking about something they are interested in, they will often keep talking for a long time.
Harris Crenshaw
#50. Nothing at all would be a step up from my conversations with Anna. God, she's dull! You get the feeling that she probably had something to say for herself once upon a time, but now everything is about the child: Is she warm enough? Is she too warm? How much milk did she take?
Paula Hawkins
#51. If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.
Neal Boortz
#52. If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
John Lydon
#54. I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
Yoko Ono
#55. I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.
Josh Duhamel
#56. Peace is not something to say but something to do.
Dominique Pire
#57. I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
Richard Lewis
#58. When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
Edie Falco
#59. When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.
Pete Rose
#60. Something to say?' said Laurent
Jord was holding off from them. The same stubborn distaste was in his voice. 'Not with him here.'
'He's your Captain,' said Laurent.
'He knows well enough he should go.'
'While we compare notes on spreading for the enemy?' said Laurent.
C.S. Pacat
#61. I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.
Bill Laswell
#62. Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.
Tony Blair
#63. The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.
George Polya
#64. It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.
David Brooks
#65. Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.
Wendy Kaminer
#66. I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.
Adam Brody
#67. I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
Penelope Lively
#68. No one talked about the questions, because talking ruined plausible deniability. Talking burst the bubble of innocence. Talking ended the happily ever after. These were the truths they believed. And they were lies. They should have talked while there was still something to say.
Courtney C. Stevens
#69. At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
Daniel Alarcon
#70. The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#71. If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. Somerset Maugham
#72. The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.
Richard Llewellyn
#73. You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.
Jonathan Meades
#74. Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form.
[Letter to Max E. Feckler, Oct. 26, 1914]
Jack London
#75. As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene.
William Finnegan
#76. Just be you. I've learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they'll always have something to say.
Megan Fox
#77. We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
Eric Hoffer
#78. I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.
Teresa Heinz
#79. The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
James M. Barrie
#80. If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out in the lobby, and then you go home and you kill yourself.
Louis C.K.
#81. Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.
Douglas Wood
#82. I'm a human being first and foremost, and I have something to say that I think is worthwhile. 'Blue Caprice' is just the second installment of so much more coming.
Isaiah Washington
#83. I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest.
Justin Vernon
#84. The way I view comedy clubs is, people are drinking, they're ordering food, they're out for the night, and there's also a person onstage talking. And with the theater, they came to the theater, and they're waiting to hear what you say. So you'd better have something to say.
Mike Birbiglia
#85. Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
John Witherspoon
#86. In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.
William E. Hordern
#87. It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
Dana Brunetti
#88. For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.
Anatoly Rybakov
#89. Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?
Georgia O'Keeffe
#90. In all kinds of composition, there are two things necessary: first, to have something to say; second, to say it.
J. Willis Westlake
#91. Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about 'Express Yourself,' and she's turned Madonna's fourth-best single of 1989 into her own instant-classic club anthem, 'Born This Way.'
Rob Sheffield
#92. I'm always willing to talk to somebody if they have something to say that is interesting.
Nikki Sixx
#93. Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
Albert Schweitzer
#94. Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
Henry Taylor
#95. I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's every artist's dream. That's the brass ring.
Joss Whedon
#96. I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.
Megyn Kelly
#97. I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.
Neil Gaiman
#98. The prerequisite for writing is having something to say.
Langston Hughes
#99. What is it with you and time capsules?"
"I like the idea of a permanent record," he explains. "Something to say, This Is Who I Am, even when I'm not that person anymore...
Harriet Reuter Hapgood
#100. It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying to say. And then a good reader will have something to say in return.
Paul Acampora
